This time it is nothing like a linkt to another Blog:  Galera on Mesos

Ok as a fact I was kinda involved. Even the work is done by Stefan all alone. We meat for a day in a coworking space and discussed about Galera and Mesos.
In the end Stefan produced this incredible blogpost and pushed Mesos forward.
Whats the fun about this post?
We already now Galera is already the standard in a lot of architectures. For example OpenStack. Doing consultant work for Docker also I encourage to use Galera for all this infrastructures Docker runs on. 
Mesos is about to run easy on 1000 nodes. It has a nice abstraction of nodes and framework. Companies like Airbnb, Paypal, eBay, Groupon use Mesos. Having a Galera poc for Mesos is going to make it likely to …

I have spent a few days now playing with CoreOS and helping other members of HP's Advanced Technology Group get it running on their setups.
Today I thought I would write about the good and the bad about CoreOS so far.  Many components are in an alpha or beta state so things may change over the coming months.  Also as a disclaimer, views in this post are my own and not necessarily those of HP.
Installation
As stated in my blog post yesterday, I have been using CoreOS on my Macbook Pro using Vagrant and VirtualBox.  This made it extremely easy to setup the CoreOS cluster on my Mac.  I made a minor mistake to start with, and that is to not configure the unique URL required for Etcd correctly.  A mistake a colleague of mine also made on his first try so it likely to be a common one to make.
I initially …